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AIG's N.Y. location takes down sign

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Working for a company named American International Group Inc. (NYSE:AIG) may be tough with the masses not only protesting outside offices, but accosting staff at their homes too. So, the company gave its employees a break by removing the stained insurer's name and logo from the front entrance at its 175 Water St. location in downtown Manhattan. The sign removal was part of the changing of the name of AIG's property-casualty arm to AIU Holdings Ltd.

The move for some employees seems to be worth more than any bonus can pay. "I feel a lot safer now, it's true," one female employee, who requested her name be kept private for fear any retribution, told the New York Post.

The removal of the company sign was likely done to prevent random acts of retribution of any form toward workers of AIG, whose CEO Ed Liddy recently told Congress that AIG employees had received graphic death threats. - Gerald Magpily

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